Ammo counter on weapon model?

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tommy8

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Posted: 26th Mar 2014 22:16

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Does anyone have any idea how you would go about this? Like the counter on the side of the pulse rifle in Aliens or in the the sight of master chief's assault rifle.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2014 19:50

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You would need a new LUA script command which could modify the UV coordinates of a mesh inside a weapon model, and also a command to read in the current amount of ammo from the current clip system. Both relatively straight forward but squarely in the camp of non-performance related work. Once the core stuff is dealt with, I would be happy to add these scripting commands

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Posted: 27th Mar 2014 19:55

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Or render to texture, especially since this is the way it should be done.

You have a gui element and you are drawing that gui onto a texture by using render to texture.

@Lee and this is actually the part where you come in, we need a way to use

render to texture. Afterwards this could be used for security cameras, dynamic weapon scopes and much more.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2014 20:00

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Or something render target flavored, sure

Not sure if it's faster writing to a vertex buffer or rendering to a surface these days, but either would produce the intended effect!

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Posted: 27th Mar 2014 20:06

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Am glad that you are getting it,

users that want such effects should realize that something like this would double the impact on fps.

However such thing should be in a modern engine.

Anyways looking forward to what you come up with when it comes to render to texture.

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